See also:AMBROSE See also:PHILIPS (c. 1675-1749)
, See also:English poet, was See also:born in See also:Shropshire of a See also:Leicestershire See also:family
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He was educated at See also:Shrewsbury school and St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, of which he became a See also:fellow in 1699
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He seems to have lived chiefly at Cambridge until he resigned his fellowship in 1708, and his pastorals probably belong to this See also:period
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He worked for See also:Jacob See also:Tonson the bookseller, and his Pastorals opened the 6th See also:volume of Tonson's Miscellanies (1709), which also contained the pastorals of See also:Pope
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See also:Philips was a stanch Whig, and a friend of See also:Steele and See also:Addison
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In Nos
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22, 23, 30 and 32 (1713) of the See also:Guardian he was injudiciously praised as the only worthy successor of See also:Spenser
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The writer of the papers, who is supposed to have been See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Tickell, pointedly ignored Pope's pastorals
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In the Spectator Addison applauded him for his simplicity, and for having written English eclogues unencumbered by the machinery of classical See also:mythology
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Pope's See also:jealousy was roused, and he sent an See also:anonymous contribution to the Guardian (No
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40) in which he See also:drew an ironical comparison between his own and See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip's pastorals, censuring himself and praising Philips's worst passages
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Philips is said to have threatened to See also:cane Pope with a See also:rod he kept hung up at See also:Button's See also:coffee-See also:house for the purpose
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It was at Pope's See also:request that See also:Gay burlesqued Philips's pastorals in his Shepherd's See also:Week, but the See also:parody pleased by the very quality of simplicity which it was intended to ridicule
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See also:Samuel See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson describes the relations between Pope and Philips as a " perpetual reciprocation of malevolence." Pope lost no opportunity of scoffing at Philips, who figured in the See also:Bathos and the Dunciad, as See also:Macer in the Characters; and in the " Instructions to a See also:porter how to find Mr See also:Curll's authors " he is a " Pindaric writer in red stockings." In 1718 he started a Whig See also:paper, The Freethinker, in See also:conjunction with See also:Hugh Boulter, then See also:vicar of St Olave's, See also:Southwark
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He had been made See also:justice of the See also:peace for See also:Westminster, and in 1717 a See also:commissioner for the lottery, and when Boulter was made See also:archbishop of See also:Armagh, Philips accompanied him as secretary
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He sat in the Irish See also:parliament for Co
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Armagh, was secretary to the See also:lord See also:chancellor in 1726, and in 1733 became a See also:judge of the See also:prerogative See also:court
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His See also:patron died in 1742, and six years later Philips returned to See also:London, where he died on the 18th of See also:June 1749
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His contemporary reputation rested on his pastorals and epistles, particularly the description of See also:winter addressed by him from See also:Copenhagen (1709) to the See also:earl of See also:Dorset
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See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
Ward's English Poets, however, he is represented by two of the See also:simple and charming pieces addressed to the See also:infant See also:children of Lord See also:Carteret and of See also:Daniel Pulteney
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These were scoffed at by See also:Swift as " little flams on See also:Miss Carteret," and earned for Philips
from See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Carey the See also:nickname of " Namby-Pamby."
Philips's See also:works are an abridgment of See also:Bishop See also:Hacket's See also:Life of John See also:Williams (1700); The Thousand and One Days; See also:Persian Tales
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(1722), from the See also:French of F
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Potis de la Croix; three plays: The Distrest See also:Mother (1712), an See also:adaptation of See also:Racine's Andromaque; The Briton (1722); Humfrey, See also:duke of See also:Gloucester (1723)
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Many of his poems, which included some See also:translations from See also:Sappho, See also:Anacreon and See also:Pindar, were published separately, and a collected edition appeared in 1748
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